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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Gruwell compare the Capulets and Montagues in Romeo and Juliet?

2. What is so special about the buses students rode in with Zlata and Mirna?

3. In what kind of neighborhood is Wilson High School located?

4. Why is the student in Diary Three at Wilson?

5. In the fall of 1994, why does one student say s/he does not belong in Gruwell's class?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Zlata mean when she says we cannot erase evil from the world, but can change the way we deal with it?

2. Why does Renee Firestone's story affect one student?

3. Who is Miep Gies?

4. Why is Gruwell frustrated at the beginning of the semester in the spring of 1995?

5. Why is Zlata Filipovic pleased and honored to write a foreword for "The Freedom Writers Diary"?

6. Why does a student decide 'odd' is not a three-letter word, but a seven-letter word?

7. Why does one student decide she is not as in love with her boyfriend as she thought she was?

8. What do the students do when they play the peanut game?

9. What parallel does Zlata see between herself and the Freedom Writers?

10. Describe a tour through the Museum of Tolerance.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Diary 107, a student compares the students at an elementary school to lotus flowers. Why does the student compare these children to lotus flowers? In what type of environment do lotus flowers grow? How is the environment of a lotus plant similar to the environment the children from the elementary school live in?

Essay Topic 2

In Diary 69, a student compares his/her neighborhood to "The Brady Bunch". Write about what life is like for the Brady Bunch. Compare the lives portrayed on the television show to the life this student leads. How are the neighborhoods different? How are their lives different? Is there anything about their lives that is the same?

Essay Topic 3

A theme in the book is the parallel between warfare as experienced by Anne Frank and Zlata Filipovic and the violence the students see in their everyday lives. How can the events in Anne's and Zlata's lives be compared to the student's lives? What kind of violence did Frank and Filipovic experience? What type of violence do the students experience? How is the violence that Anne and Zlata experienced similar or dissimilar to what the students face?

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